A review by sde
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Shana Knizhnik, Irin Carmon

3.0

My non-fiction book group read this after Dark Money, and it was a good break from that extremely interesting but depressing book. This is a light look at Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You don't have to know much about the law to follow it. The authors write about cases and dissents in a way that lay people can understand it. It is obviously not scholarly, but it is an interesting look at her life and cases. I didn't realize that she had represented males who didn't get spousal benefits as a way to fight for equality. That was likely a good strategy even though it earned her some enemies among some feminists.

I did like the recounting of how RBG and Scalia shopped together because RBG's husband hated shopping. The picture of this tiny woman and huge man looking for clothes made me laugh.

The same book group also read Sonia Sotomayor's autobiography, which was much more in depth and a good companion piece to this book.